Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-12
At PEACE WITH ENEMIES.
Dr.. Talmage,s Sermon at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle.


AFTER explaining some passages concerning
Hezekiah, DR.. Talmage gave out the fol-
lowing hymn, which was sung by the con-
gregation:
This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way,
While each in expectation lives
And longs to see the day.
Prof. Henry Eyre Browne rendered Oh
the organ an aria with variations, BY
Cramer. The text Of the sermon was from
Ephesians iv, 26: "Let not the sun 20
down upon your wrath" DR.. Talmage
said:
What pillow embroidered of all colora
hath the dying day. The cradle Of clouds
from which the sun rises is beautiful
enough, but it is surpassed by the many
colored mausoleum in which at evening it
is buried. Sunset among the mountains
1t almost takes ones breath away TO recall
the scene. The long shadows stretching
over the plain make the the glory of the
departing light on the tiptop crags and
struck aslant through the foliage the more
transpicuous. Saffron and gold. purple
and crimson eommingled. All the castles
Of cloud in confagration. Burning Mos
cows on the sky. Hanging gardens OF
roses at their deepest blush. Banners of
yapors, red as if from carnage, in the battle
Of the elements. The hunter among the
Adirondacks and the Swiss villager among
the Alps know what is a sunset among the
mountains. After storm at sea the roll
ing grandeur into which the sun goes down
to battle the nightfall is something to make
weird and splendid dreams out of for a
lifetime. Alexander Smith in his poem
compares the sunset to "the barren beach
of hell, but this wonderful spectacle of
nature makes me think of the Furnished
wall of Heaven. Paul in prison writing
my text remembers some of the gorgeous
sunsets among the mountains of Asia
Minor, and how he had often seen the
towers of Damascus blaze in the close OF
memory in the text when he says: "Let
not the sun go down upon your wrath"
Sublime and all suggestive duty for PEG.
pie then and people now. Forgiveness be-
fore shutdown. He who never feels the
throb of indignation is imbecile. He who
can walk among the injustices of the world,
inflicted upon himself and others, without
flush Of cheek or fash of eyes or agitation
of nature, is either in sympathy with wrong
or semi-idiotic. When Ananias, the high
priest, ordered the constables of the court
room to smite Paul in the mouth, Paul
fired up and said: "God will smite thee,
thou whited WALL" In the sentence im<
mediately before my text Paul commands
the Ephesians: "Be We angry and sin not. F"
It all depends on what you are mad at and
how long the feeling lasts whether anger is
right or wrong. Life is full of exaspera-
tons. Saul after David, Succoth after
Gideon, Korah after Moses, the Pasquins
after Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ,
and every one has had his pursuers, and
we are swindled or belied or misrepre-
scented or prosecuted or in some way
wronged, and the danger is that healthful
indignation shall become baleful spite,
and that our feelings settle down into
prolonged outpouring of temper displeas-
ing to God and ruinous to ourselves, and
hence the important injunction of the
text: "Let not the sun 60 down on your
wrath"
Why that limitation to ones anger? Why
that period of flaming vapor set to pune
tuate flaming disposition? What has the
sunset got to do with ones resentful
emotions? Was il haphazard sentiment
written by Paul without special signif-
canoe? No, no; think of five reasons
why we should not let the sun set before
our temper sets.
First, because twelve hours is long
flcted upon us. Nothing is 80 exhausting
to physical health or mental faculty as q
protracted indulgence of i'll humor. 1t
racks the nervous system. It hurts the
it heats the blood in brain and
heart until the whole body is first over
heated and then depressed. Besides that,
it sours the disposition, turns one aside
from his legitimate work, expends energies
that ought to be better employed, and does
us more harm than it does our antagonist.
Paul gives us good, wide allowance Of
time for legitimate denunciation, from 6
o'clock to 6 o'clock, but says: "Stop
there!" Watch the descending orb of day,
and when it reaches the horizon take
reef in your disposition. Unloose your
collar and cool off. Change the subject to
something delightfully."- pleasant. Unroll
your tight fist and shake hands with some
one. Bank up the fires at the curfew bell.
Drive the growing dog of enmity back to
it's kennel. The hours of this morning
will pass by, and the afternoon will ar
rive, and the sun will begin to set, and
beg you on it's blazing hearth throw all
your feuds, invectives, and satires.
Other things being equal, the man who
preserves good temper will come out
ahead. An old essayist says that the cele-
brated John Henderson, of Bristol, En-
gland, was at dining party where
political excitement ran high and The de-
bate got angry, and while Henderson was
speaking his opponent, unable to answer
his argument, dashed glass of wine in
his face, when the speaker deliberately
wiped the liquid from his face and said:
1This. sir, is DEPRESSION; now, if you
please, for the main argument" While
worldly philosophy could help but very
few to such equipoise OF spirit the grace
of God could help any man to such tri-
umph. Impossible" you say. Il would
have either left the table in anger or have
Knocked the man down." But I have
come to believe that nothing is impossible,
If God help, since what saw at Beth
Shan faith cure in London, England, two
summers ago. While the religious service
was going on Rev. DR.. Boardman, glorious
man, since gone to his heavenly rest, was
telling the scores of sick people present
that Christ was there as of old to heal all
and that, if they would only be-
lieve, their sickness would depart. l saw
q woman near me, with hand and arm
twisted of rheumatism, and her wrist was
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